Nov 10, 2023
Black 5-Year-Old's Body Found In Dumpster After Being Denied Amber Alert
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Five year old found dead after
being denied an Amber Alert.
Let me say that again.
A five year old was found dead
after being denied an Amber Alert.
This happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A family is mourning the loss of a five
year old, Prince McCree, who was murdered
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and found in a dumpster a day after
disappearing from his home last month.
Despite his parent's plea for help from
authorities at the time, a state elected
official said the family's request for an
amber had been denied on a technicality.
My God, nothing about a child should be
denied on the form of a damn technicality.
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Let's just say that and say it clear.
And these technicalities
that they deny people on so
often happens to black families and
black kids.
According to Atlanta Black Star, in the
state, there are very specific markers for
Amber Alerts to be activated.
First and foremost, the child has to be
believed to be in serious physical danger
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or facing a life-threatening situation,
contingent upon the availability of
sufficient descriptive information
about the child, the suspect,
and/or the suspect vehicle, according to
the state Justice Department website.
Well, I'm gonna tell you right now, State
Justice Department website, go to hell.
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Go to hell.
I don't need to have physical
information about who kidnapped or
stole a five year old.
If a five year old parents
don't know where that child is,
that's enough to put out an Amber Alert.
And if that ain't your system,
if that ain't the answer,
then your system is all wrong, all broken.
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Nina, what do you think
about that ridiculous?
Yeah, Mayor.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, if a child is missing,
let's just go ahead and
amp this up to a ten and deal with it.
If it's a five along the way, but
you treat it like a serious
incidence from the beginning.
They should be ashamed of themselves and
whatever technicality.
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Hopefully, policymakers
are changing that right now, but
it shouldn't even take a policy,
it's called common sense.
My grandmother used to
talk about all the time.
And when she said common sense
ain't that common, in this case,
we can fully see that a baby missing and
they having a cavalier attitude.
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Like she said, I don't even know,
I don't even wanna put an analogy in this.
The baby was missing,
authorities did not comport themselves in
a way that made this top level for them.
And here we have, the baby's dead.
>> Speaker 1: The baby's dead, and
that is absolutely disgusting to me.
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And you asked about that technicality
sister, guess what it was.
The family could not provide the
authorities with the name of the suspect
or the vehicle that may have been
connected to Prince's disappearance.
>> Speaker 2: Makes no sense.
>> Speaker 1: I don't
know who stole my child.
>> Speaker 2: The technicality was he was
black, maybe that was the technicality.
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>> Speaker 1: I mean,
that is a given, right?
That is the unspoken.
The Wisconsin Justice Department refused
to issue an Amber Alert has sparked debate
with some politicians and activists,
like State Senator LaTonya Johnson,
contending that the state's stringent
alert criteria hindered the search for
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missing endangered children,
especially black children,
who are often underreported by the media
and met with apparent police indifference.
Let me tell you something.
We know how comfortable America is with
the screams and the pains of black folk.
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But a five year old child going missing,
and there's any technicalities from
stopping, I don't understand why all
hands on deck wasn't issued immediately.
Amber, black, white, red, blue, all your
alerts should have been going off when
the family called you and said they didn't
know where their five year old was.
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It shouldn't take a senator in Johnson or
activists across that state to say that,
that should be common sense.
The senator said to NBC News
about his ineligibility for
an Amber Alert, that pisses me off.
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It should piss anybody with a soul off.
Something is wrong when a five year
old does not qualify for Amber Alert.
And also mentioned she heard the family
say, if this was a little white boy,
more would have been done.
We damn well know that.
America has a wonderful,
wonderful history, sister Nina,
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in finding and defending white folk.
And it should be anybody's child,
right, Mayor.
Because that's what we're saying,
anybody's child.
We don't care, their ethnicity,
racial, we don't care.
All we are saying is that systemically
in this country when it comes
to black children, it doesn't yield
the same type of, let's get into gear,
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let's get into action as it would for
a white child.
So treat this black child like
you would treated a white child.
I mean, that's what this
comes down to at this point.
It's galling, it's immoral.
All kinds of emotions should be flowing
through people right now to know that this
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baby's life could have been saved and
that authorities acted like there was just
a regular report of barking dog or
something like that.
I mean, really,
chilling what happened to this family and
now they are gonna have to
bury their five year old baby.
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I mean, it just brings tears to your eyes.
And beyond, I wanna know what's gonna
happen so that this is different the next
time, really, because now this
child's death should not be in vain.
What are they gonna do for the next time.
And again,
it does come down to common sense.
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I'm glad we got the Amber Alert,
but why we got to have all that for
the authorities to take seriously
that a five year old baby is missing?
Most parents or
caregivers are not gonna make that up.
And guess what?
If they make that kind of stuff up,
we got laws for that too.
But you treat it on ten from
the moment it's reported and
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let everything else be sorted out,
on technically.
My God.
I'm telling you -.
>> That wasn't fair.
Some more reporting on this from
Atlanta Blackstar says since his state's
implementation of the alarm
system over two decades ago,
Wisconsin has only issued 57 Amber Alerts.
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And I bet you it should be more.
The system has a 50/50 rate of
recovering children 17 years and under.
Prince family initially believed his race
had something to do with them not issuing
an Amber Alert.
We know that for a fact,
according to the senator.
But Johnson explained that
the issue is the system.
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The issue is the system that does not
negate the fact that he was a little black
boy missing.
Some activists are pushing for
a new system to be graded called
the Lily Alert for missing kids like
the system namesake, Lily Peters and
Prince, who do not meet
the Amber Alert criteria.
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However, even if the Amber Alert
had been issued for Prince,
it would not have saved his life.
This is what authorities believe.
Of course, they're gonna say that
because I'm not even gonna finish that,
because what I won't do is I won't get
caught up, my mouth wouldn't even let me.
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I started stuttering the minute I
started to read that ridiculousness.
How do we know when he was
found a day after he was dead?
I'm not about to do this, I'm not about
to do this with them and give them.
And I hate when there's articles
just taking whatever you're fed from
these authorities and reading it as
if it's true, muddy in the water.
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We don't know what would have
happened if that Amber Alert was
issued because it wasn't.
Police records says -.
>> Speaker 1: Go ahead, sister.
Go ahead.
>> Speaker 2: I was gonna say the Amber
Alert is a system that was created so
we can create the system any way we want.
I mean, for
them to act like it's immutable,
that nothing can be done about it.
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It can be, the system itself can be
changed, and you can go above and beyond,
right?
Man, was there some law out there on the
books that said they couldn't go above and
beyond the Amber Alert criteria?
Because Amber Alert is just a frame, But
there's nothing that says you
can't go above and beyond that.
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>> Speaker 1: That's a fact.
I'm gonna talk a little bit right
now about the police records and
what they said happened to this child, but
I do wanna preface it by letting people
know that it is graphic and disgusting.
Police records state that Prince died
after being beat to death with a 30 pound
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barbell and a golf club while he was
playing video games in his home.
And that the killer also stabbed
him during the beating, and
dropped a ceramic bird
bath on the child's head.
Prince was discovered about a mile
from his family's home on Thursday,
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October 26, blood soaked, bound and
gagged in a fetal position in
a dumpster a day after he went missing.
Two residents of Prince household,
15 year old Eric Mendoza, not pictured,
and 27 year old David Petri, pictured,
stand accused of this heinous crime.
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Police said they confessed to
brutally assaulting a child
before placing his body inside a garbage
bag and discarding it in the dumpster.
Mendoza also is accused of committing
three random stabbings two days before
Prince murder.
Those victims were all attacked
from behind on the street, but
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none were fatally injured.
This is rough.
Nina, can you say something?
>> I mean, what I would say,
they would have to bleep it.
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Those are monsters.
And quite frankly,
there are some people walking the face
of the earth who are really just that.
This really reminds me of Emmett Till too,
what Emmett Till had to endure.
I mean, the type of mentality that it
would take to do this to any person,
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but especially to a baby,
it is heinous as hell.
And everybody should see in their babies.
I don't even know how we were able
to do this story, the parents,
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the other relatives of this baby
just have no effing words for
it, none for
what happened to this little baby.
And you can imagine the pain at the time
that this was happening to this baby, and
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then they got the nerve to talk about some
damn technicality, F the technicalities.
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